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Learning about Sea Turtles and closing out Marathon on the Great Loop
After 2 days waiting for weather to blow over, we decided to spend the last day on land and check out the Marathon Turtle Hospital. This hospital specializes in rehabilitation, education, and research and you can learn more or even adopt a turtle at this link: https://www.turtlehospital.org/ Afterwards we close out Marathon at a classic…
Hunkering down in Marathon, Florida
Our plan for the day was originally to knock out some boat chores like Groceries, laundry, propane, etc and then cruise to our “hurricane hole” to ride out these winter winds! A combination of our exhaustion from getting back to filming (leading to a late start) coinciding with the weather turning earlier than forecasted made…
The top marina in the Florida Keys (Bahia Honda State Park)
After a long first day on the Loop we pulled up the anchor from a calm nights sleep and left Newfound Harbor. With a split cruise in store for today, we are stopping by the TOP marina in the Florida Keys before arriving at our anchorage for the evening at Boot Key Harbor, Marathon.
Kicking off our Great Loop 2022 in Key West
Thank you to all of YOU for your support! Let’s get it started! Time to begin America’s Great Loop! After a 9 month hiatus, we are back at it folks. We are starting in Key West, Florida – the southernmost tip of the contiguous United States. We tour Key West before we hop back in…
How to maintain your boat engine
Back when we had a car, a different life ago, I did the only real maintenance I knew and needed to do. Oil Changes… Now that we currently live on a boat, I’ve had to completely re-learn what it means to have our systems in order! As you know, it is much more difficult to…
What we’ve learned from owning a boat for a year
If you had asked us 2 years ago, if we would ever own a boat – we would have both replied, “never”. I guess you should never say never and due to covid + life changes, we pivoted to Boat life! We had practically 0 experience when it came to boating as well although Jennifer…
Scho & Jo Q&A | Boating, Relationships, AGL, Boat Dogs, and More!
We asked for questions on all our platforms and are excited to finally take the time to answer them. Here is a list of the questions we answered: Our Boat Why did we choose Pivot? If you could change one thing about Pivot, what would it be? How much did Pivot cost? Would you have…
Interviewing Abroad Reach Travel, ICW Experts
We traveled 1,500 miles south with our buddy boat, SV Acadia and really enjoyed every second of it. It was Andy, Gwen, and Aidenβs third time traveling on the Intracoastal Waterway from Maine to Florida to back to Maine and then all the way south to the Bahamas. It was wonderful to travel with them…
Cruising 1,500 Miles South for the Winter | Photos of the Intracoastal Waterway
1,500 nautical miles later, we’re in the Florida Keys! We hope you enjoyed looking at the behind the scenes images from our Southbound cruise to the Florida Keys. We send out weekly emails with what we’ve been up to from the previous week as well as what’s in store for us in the following week.…
How we cooked a Thanksgiving meal on a boat
Happy holidays from the PIVOT crew! We attempted, and Iβm happy to say, we succeeded at cooking a full Thanksgiving meal on a boat! Together with our boat buddies, Gwen, Andy, and their dog Aiden on SV Acadia from Abroad Reach Travel, we divided and conquered our Friendsgiving Menu. We have two different boats, a…
